Their addictions drive them to extreme actions and reactions - physical violence, emotional violence, stealing, lying, sexual promiscuity - all of which could, in fact, be seen as extreme. A short story cycle comprising 11 pieces. In other words, they have become addicted to their avoidance of reality, lost in darkness and fear that is, in fact, even darker and more destructive than they life they are so desperate to escape. Jesus Son is a collection of short fiction by Denis Johnson published in 1992 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

The film stars Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, Holly Hunter, and Dennis Hopper, with Denis Leary, Will Patton, John Ventimiglia, Michael Shannon, and Jack Black in supporting roles. The actions, reactions and apparent feelings of the narrator and the people he encounters on his journey towards compassion and health (a journey concluded in 'Beverly Hotel' - see 'Desperation and Compassion' below) all seem connected, albeit to varying degrees, to their drive to escape reality through intoxicating substances. Jesus' Son is a 1999 drama film that was adapted from the eponymous short story collection by Denis Johnson. Its brief, linked stories take place in 1970s. Fuckhead is more screw up than criminal, with a history of drug addiction and alcoholism. Published in 1992, Jesus Son is one of the best short story collections of the last 25 years, and its current unavailability in the UK is a joke. There is the strong sense that almost all the characters in the stories in this collection, if not all, are caught in the self-destructive trap of addiction to drugs and/or alcohol. Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson (1990) is a collection of short stories following the life of the narrator, Fuckhead, over an indeterminate number of years. In his first collection of stories, Denis Johnson, whose most recent novel Tree of Smoke received the National Book Award for Fiction (2007).

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